reeling
Example Sentences
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Many women - already feeling unsafe - have been left reeling by recent events.
From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026
Just five years ago, prolonged closures during the pandemic torpedoed foot traffic to malls that were already reeling from department-store closures and anxieties over the rise of online shopping.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Those are the values Americans clung to when 9/11 sent us reeling.
From Slate ● Sep. 11, 2026
Lee Chang-dong’s superb “Possible Love,” for instance, generates its explosively intimate finale by first investing us in the saga of strikers reeling from a brutal government crackdown.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2026
The Dumpster had been slowly reeling in its shadow, so that he now had to sit with his back flat against it and his knees drawn up in order to remain wholly in the shade.
From "Wringer" by Jerry Spinelli
